Following a healthier, lighter diet also applies to CSS, and the latter will become heavy if it has to put up with base64-encoded fonts. Fasterize helps you optimize your loading times by outsourcing fonts instead of embedding them in CSS, a critical resource that the browser needs to load as quickly as possible. The result? Pages are displayed faster thanks to a better Start Render.
The faster a site is (that’s our core business) the better web user engagement it gets. And there are plenty of solutions to accelerate a website! Reducing page size as far as possible is one of the most effective ways – and the most obvious. Essentially, the fewer bytes that the browser has to download, the faster the site is. And so, one sensible solution involves optimizing the raw size of the JavaScript and CSS code by minifying them, as well as using a more effective compression algorithm.
Maybe you’ve already heard people talking about Early Hint? Or perhaps the HTTP 103 code? This feature, which is currently being standardized by the W3C, can be used to preload page resources even before receiving the first byte of content. Unfortunately, currently, HTTP 103 is very rarely used by browsers, despite the benefits it offers in terms of loading speed. To address this, our technical team has developed an optimization that allows our customers to preload a non-cacheable page’s resources – we’d like to introduce you to Early Hint!
When you’re holding Sales promotions or on Black Friday/Cyber Monday, an overflow page – or traffic easing system – allows you to define a maximum number of active sessions to keep your servers up and running, thus minimizing the loss of potential customers. This feature, which we call Traffic Limiter on our platform, is now available for all our users, and is easy to enable from the dashboard.
In 2009, Google unveiled its SPDY project: a new protocol to reduce web page loading time by optimizing files transfers and ordering them according to their priority. With this new protocol, files are sent in a single connection (known as multiplexing).
SPDY was used as basis for the HTTP/2 specifications that were released this month (on February 18). Continue reading Fasterize on the road to HTTP/2!
